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... you do, you can take some lessons from the Mbalantu women of Namibia in Africa, who are renowned for their incredibly long, braided hair. ... you do, you can take some lessons from the Mbalantu women of Namibia in Africa, who are renowned for their incredibly long, braided hair. ...

... inches] per annum.” A fairy circle in Namibia. (Thorsten Becker/ CC BY SA 2.0 de ) The oral myths of the Himba people , a pastoral group that inhabit Namibia and Angola, have explained the mysterious circles as the footprints ...

... some astonishingly beautiful children’s footprints in Namibia, just south of Walvis Bay. In archaeological terms the tracks were ... The tracks are not as anatomically distinct as those from Namibia but they are smaller and may have been made by children as young as one ...

... an independent country and since then it is known today as Namibia. Herero and Namaqua were nations of animal breeders. The German ... In 1998, the German president Roman Herzog visited Namibia and met the leaders of Herero. Their leader Munjuku Nguvauna demanded a ...

... diamond-mining lease near the mouth of the Orange River on Namibia’s southern coast. In 2008, a company geologist working in the mining ... References Bryson, D., 2014. Shipwreck Off Namibia is 500-year-old Treasure Trove. [Online] Available at: ...

... a farm near Grootfontein, in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. Its extreme mass means it has never been moved from the spot it ... control vandalism the government of South West Africa (now Namibia) on March 15, 1955, declared the Hoba meteorite to be a national ...

... of the Bom Jesus has been heavily guarded at its site in the Namibia desert due to its proximity to diamond mines (which influenced its ... Bom Jesus wreckage for more than a century. Their work in Namibia's Namib Desert (called the Sperrgebiet ("forbidden territory")) has ...

... history. The Himba are indigenous peoples living in northern Namibia, who use a body paint made from red ochre and milk fat. The paste is ... ochre with milk as a body paint, the modern Himba people in Namibia mix ochre with butter as a coloring agent for skin, hair and leather ...

Just south of Awendaw, South Carolina, in the Francis Marion National Forest, is an example of a type of architectural artifact that still baffles archaeologists. For every explanation someone offers up, there are many more that refute it. Here's the story:

Researchers reporting in Current Biology on November 19 have found that a vast array of regularly spaced, still-inhabited ancient termite mounds in northeastern Brazil are up to about 4,000 years old and cover an area the size of Great Britain.

Numerous folk stories in Galicia, Spain, tell of supernatural spirits that dwell in forests, among the waters of the rivers, or on sandy beaches. Many of them are related in some ways to ancient Celtic stories but it is not the only source of their inspiration. In fact, the folklore legends that remain alive in this area are a mixture of different traditions that originate with the local Portuguese and Spanish, as well as the older sources, like the Celts and Romans.

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The Paiutes, a Native-American tribe indigenous to parts of Nevada, have an oral tradition that they told to early white settlers of the area about a race of red-haired, white giants or ‘barbarians’...

There are many stone artifacts from the ancient world made from the hardest stone on the planet such as granite and diorite, which have been cut and shaped with such quality, precision and accuracy that the standard explanations of their manufacture are simply inadequate.

Myths & Legends

The Paiutes, a Native-American tribe indigenous to parts of Nevada, have an oral tradition that they told to early white settlers of the area about a race of red-haired, white giants or ‘barbarians’...

Ancient Technology

There are many stone artifacts from the ancient world made from the hardest stone on the planet such as granite and diorite, which have been cut and shaped with such quality, precision and accuracy that the standard explanations of their manufacture are simply inadequate.

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